Mahalakshmi Somasundaram
Connecticut,USA
Summary
Results-driven senior test automation engineer with over 7 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing automated testing solutions. Proficient in utilizing a variety of automation tools and technologies, expertise is brought to ensuring the reliability and efficiency of software products. Seeking a challenging position where skills and knowledge can be leveraged to contribute to the continuous improvement of software quality and testing processes, driving excellence and innovation in every project
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Automation Consultant
United Airlines | Thinknext Software Solutions
04.2022 - Current
- Lead design, development, and implementation of automated testing solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and quality standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and quality assurance analysts, to define testing strategies and requirements
- Reported defects to development team using Rally and tracked their resolution progress.
- Conducted (E2E)web UI tests using Cucumber, Gherkin, and Cypress automation to validate software functionality.
- Managed deployment activities for every release, ensuring smooth transitions to higher environments with required fix versions.
- Conducted functional testing, regression testing, API testing, and smoke testing using Cypress with BDD framework, ensuring reliability and quality of software.
Senior Test Automation Engineer
TCS
12.2018 - 01.2022
- Conducted training sessions on Selenium, Jenkins, and JavaScript
- Designed a robust automation framework from scratch utilizing Cypress for UI automation, leveraging JavaScript, NodeJS, and NPM for Angular-based user interfaces.
- Developed Selenium WebDriver automation scripts in Javascript to validate the functionality of various components across different environments.
- Enhanced and maintained multiple test scripts to adapt to changes in application GUI and testing environments using Selenium WebDriver, ensuring continuous testing effectiveness.
- Automated regression test cases using Selenium WebDriver, ensuring the stability and reliability of the application.
- Conducted cross-browser compatibility testing using XPath and CSS Path in Selenium, ensuring consistent performance across different browsers.
- Conducted both UI and API testing using Cypress, establishing frameworks from scratch and ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
- Managed testing efforts using GitLab and Jira, actively tracking tasks in each sprint and participating in story point meetings to provide accurate estimations and effort assessment.
- Integrated automation tests with Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, automating test runs and ensuring timely feedback on build health.
- Engaged in continuous professional development to stay updated with the latest testing methodologies and tools, ensuring testing strategies remain current and effective.
Test Automation Engineer
TCS
10.2016 - 12.2018
- Developed automation scripts using Protractor with Cucumber framework to automate an Angular-based web application.
- Implemented Page Object Model, UI Mapping, and Data-Driven testing.
- Performed backend testing on MS SQL Server using SQL queries.
- Conducted backend testing and database manipulations using SQL queries
- Worked on UFT with TDD framework to automate desktop applications.
- Contributed to timely product releases by consistently meeting deadlines for testing phases and bug resolution.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CTBachelor of Science - Computer Science engineering
Sri Manakular Vinayagar Engineering College
Pondicherry, India01.2016
Skills
Automation Tools: Protractor-cucumber framework, Cypress, UFT, Jenkins, Selenium Web Driver
Programming Languages and Database: JAVA, C#, Typescript, Javascript, Python, Gherkins, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL
Development Tools: Eclipse, SSMS, TOAD, Visual studio code, POSTMAN, IBM BAW 1800x, IBM BAW 1900x, MySQL workbench
Testing Experience: Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing,API testing Implementation Methodology: AGILE (Rally), Waterfall
Timeline
Senior Automation Consultant
United Airlines | Thinknext Software Solutions
04.2022 - Current
Senior Test Automation Engineer
TCS
12.2018 - 01.2022
Test Automation Engineer
TCS
10.2016 - 12.2018
Master of Science - Computer Science
Southern Connecticut State University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science engineering
Sri Manakular Vinayagar Engineering College
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